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Designing with and for children with special needs: an inclusionary model

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Mona Leigh Guha,

Allison Druin,

Jerry Alan FailsAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '08: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Interaction design and children

Pages 61 - 64

https://doi.org/10.1145/1463689.1463719

Published: 11 June 2008 Publication History

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In order to design for children with special needs, we need to design with children with special needs. The inclusionary model proposed in this paper suggests that appropriate involvement of children with special needs in the design process begins with the level of involvement a team expects from children, and is additionally influenced by the nature and severity of the child's disability and the availability and intensity of support available to the child.

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Designing with and for children with special needs: an inclusionary model
1. Applied computing
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IDC '08: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Interaction design and children

June 2008

289 pages

ISBN:9781595939944

DOI:10.1145/1463689

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Northwestern University

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